On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 19:37, Rory Browne wrote: > > I would submit that the error suppression operator isn't BAD BAD BAD > per se - it's just like goto, in that 99% of its use is bad. In the > absence of a comment justifying it, the error-suppressed expression is > BAD. > > There are some cases where the Error Suppression operator may be > useful in good code. I wouldn't use it to suppress anything more > serious than E_NOTICE. I don't think I ever used this operator, but if > I did, i'd explain why there is no possible case where the code could > emit an E_WARNING or higher. Yep I agree with that... the particular usage in the example though was just laziness :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
